If infection primarily involves the outermost layers of adult amphibian skin, and if the chytrids use the skin as their sole source of nutrition, then which term best applies to the chytrids?

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Chytrids that infect amphibian skin and use it as their sole source of nutrition are aerobic chemoheterotrophs. This is because they require oxygen for their metabolic processes (aerobic) and they obtain their energy by consuming organic substances (chemoheterotroph), such as the skin of amphibians.

If Infection Primarily Involves the Outermost Layers of Adult Amphibian